Dannii Minogue’s Eerie 20-Year-Old Russell Brand Warning Resurfaces
Dannii Minogue called Russell Brand a "vile predator" in 2006. The remark has resurfaced after the comedian's 10-year-and-six-month prison sentence for rape and sexual assaults. Other stars, including Sir Rod Stewart, also confronted him publicly before the case.
Dannii Minogue's eerie 20-year-old description of Russell Brand as a "vile predator" has resurfaced after the British comedian was sentenced this week to 10 years and six months in prison for rape and sexual assaults. The sentence was handed down on Monday, UK time.
Brand was found guilty of raping one woman and of three counts of sexual assault between 2004 and 2009. He received nine years for the rape, plus 18 months, nine months and eight months for the assaults.
What Minogue said in 2006
The Australian singer and TV star appeared on Brand's short-lived MTV talk show, 1 Leicester Square, to promote her album The Hits and Beyond. Afterward she gave a newspaper interview about the encounter.
"He is completely crazy and a bit of a vile predator," she said then. She added that she did not think he had cured his "sex addiction".
Minogue recalled that Brand commented on her "fabulous breasts" and followed her down a corridor, pestering her for her phone number. "He wouldn't take no for an answer," she said. "He always goes that step too far. Never quite far enough to slap his face, but usually too far."
She said the remarks made her uncomfortable. "Just uttering the words would make me blush," she said of what he told her during the interview.
Rod Stewart's 2006 confrontation
Minogue was not the only public figure to challenge Brand in 2006. At the GQ Men of the Year Awards that year, Brand insinuated onstage that he had slept with Sir Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberley Stewart.
When Stewart took the stage later, he called Brand out. "Russell, stand up," he said. Brand reportedly changed his story, saying he had only taken her out for one evening and "I never touched that girl".
"You mustn't come up here and boast. I speak here as a father," Stewart replied. Stewart later told a TV interviewer that Brand was "humbled, absolutely humbled".
Walliams named this week
The resurfaced comments sit alongside a second British entertainment story. This week, comedian and author David Walliams was identified as the high-profile man at the centre of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct in the UK.
Walliams has denied the allegations. He is not formally under police investigation.
Former Britain's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan had criticized Walliams years earlier. In 2022 he posted on X that Walliams was "one of the nastiest frauds in TV", after Walliams left the show over leaked audio of disparaging remarks about contestants.
